"The Church is the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord on the day dedicated to consecrated persons. ... There are people in the Church: men and women who, by the oath of the evangelical counsels of obedience, poverty and chastity are particularly consecrated to God." - Read in the letter Polish bishops.

"Jesus Christ and the power of healing" - Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)

THE HOLY EUCHARIST

Those who through baptism have been raised to the dignity of the royal priesthood, and the confirmation had been deeply conformed to Christ, through the Eucharist participate together with the whole community in the sacrifice of the Lord.

"At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, Our Savior instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross throughout the ages until he should come again, and so to entrust to his beloved Spouse, the Church, a memorial of his death and resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, a Paschal banquet 'in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us."

The Eucharist is "the source and summit of the Christian life". "The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch."

"The Eucharist is the efficacious sign and sublime cause of that communion in the divine life and that unity of the People of God by which the Church is kept in being. It is the culmination both of God's action sanctifying the world in Christ and of the worship men offer to Christ and through him to the Father in the Holy Spirit.".

Finally, by the Eucharistic celebration we already unite ourselves with the heavenly liturgy and anticipate eternal life, when God will be all in all.

In brief, the Eucharist is the sum and summary of our faith: "Our way of thinking is attuned to the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn confirms our way of thinking."